Pardon my use of classic literature in the title of this thread. It comes with my age at 75 years young. I have operated marine aquariums for 51 years, thus a companion thread “Nutrient Management by Old School Reefer”.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/nutrient-management-by-“old-school”-reefer.784640/
This economy stand was set up with two 55G economy tanks to receive 40lbs of diver collected live sand & 200 lbs of live rock from Gulf Live Rock.
Bottom tank was removed 2 years ago and set up 48 hours ago.
Top tank has been set up for 3 years. For biological filtration, a reverse flow undergravel filter pushes 300GPH into plenum and up thru 2” of aroggonite substrate. Also included in biological filtration is a fast flow cryptic refugium in a cannister filter. I rely on cryptic sponges for biochemistry in balancing out DOC. DOC from coral is mainly lipids & proteins while DOC from algae is mostly carbohydrates/ glucose/ sugar.
That was 3 years ago. I moved much of diver collected rock into 75G & 120G display tanks at 25 years mature and 5 years mature. Now I am thinning out GSP covered live rock to sell to LFS in Austin. Just 48 hours ago, I mixed salt with 55G of 1000’ we’ll in Trinity Aquifer. I added a little of dry aroggonite substrate and a handful of live sand from established tank. When I added large GSP covered live rock I saw pods a swimming and mini stars shaken loose from live rock. The mini stars get into Gracilaria Hayi and are easily transferred between tanks.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/nutrient-management-by-“old-school”-reefer.784640/
This economy stand was set up with two 55G economy tanks to receive 40lbs of diver collected live sand & 200 lbs of live rock from Gulf Live Rock.
Gulf Live Rock.com
gulfliverock.com
Bottom tank was removed 2 years ago and set up 48 hours ago.
Top tank has been set up for 3 years. For biological filtration, a reverse flow undergravel filter pushes 300GPH into plenum and up thru 2” of aroggonite substrate. Also included in biological filtration is a fast flow cryptic refugium in a cannister filter. I rely on cryptic sponges for biochemistry in balancing out DOC. DOC from coral is mainly lipids & proteins while DOC from algae is mostly carbohydrates/ glucose/ sugar.
That was 3 years ago. I moved much of diver collected rock into 75G & 120G display tanks at 25 years mature and 5 years mature. Now I am thinning out GSP covered live rock to sell to LFS in Austin. Just 48 hours ago, I mixed salt with 55G of 1000’ we’ll in Trinity Aquifer. I added a little of dry aroggonite substrate and a handful of live sand from established tank. When I added large GSP covered live rock I saw pods a swimming and mini stars shaken loose from live rock. The mini stars get into Gracilaria Hayi and are easily transferred between tanks.